#because what? you didn't like tv show?

[sylvies-kablooie]

i hope we are better people now than in 2021

not to revive dead discourse but i just want to put it out there that they way the internet treated sophia dimartino during s1 of loki was cruel and if i see any of that going on again this time around i will block no questions asked. you are not "cool" for posting horrific harassment to the people behind a show you didn't like.

[helenofblackthorns]

"the atla live action is the worst adaptation ever" none of you people would have survived shtv

[greenerteacups]

Hi GT,

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I absolutely love the recs you've given (you've introduced me to tomione, and I love it!) and I was wondering if it's possible to give you some recs in return? There are some books and fics that definitely have dramione / got vibes, and I was wondering if I could share them with you!

So glad you've enjoyed them! Feel free to rec me anything you want. I've read most of the classic recs in terms of fic and adjacent content (Cruel Prince et al), but I'll try anything that's well-written. My tastes run towards weird and/or audaciously creative stuff, and I can forgive a lot of weaknesses in plot on the grounds of (1) ambition or (2) character work. My turnoffs are instalove, protagonists who can't fail, and most Y/A (I'm not a hater, I swear, I just need characters who can say "fuck" when their leg gets chopped off.)

I'm also a fan of weird and fucked-up dynamics.(Wuthering Heights was my favorite book for a while, and as a teenager I wrote an AU in which the book ends on a long sex scene where Heathcliff fucks Cathy's ghost and then immediately gets murdered by Catherine 2.) Obviously, I am very normal.

[yohankang]

btw i forgot to tell you but i passed one of my final exams partly because of designated survivor ahjdgjdfjd

[talknerdytome18]

I only have one request if we get AGGGTM S2: they need to keep this line from Connor.

"so I went back to Zach's new house and we... we played Fortnite, so now the world knows that then."

Connor, respectfully, I don't think the world cares too much if you went back to Zach's house and played Fortnite with him. Did something else happen that you're not telling us? 🤨 🏳️‍🌈

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

I got thinking too much about Marwa from What We Do in the Shadows again and how she was canonically making observations of Jupiter and Saturn in the 1200s. Then I thought about how Elena took Damon to go watch a meteor shower, and I decided that Marwa and Elena should get away from all the vampire drama B.S. in their lives and go nerd out about astronomy together, and this moodboard sort of happened. I also thought about how Elena becomes a doctor and went ah, they are both women in STEM! So I ran with that as a theme too.

But yeah, Marwa needs a friend who will actually support her interests and engage with her intellectually (no shade to Nadja and the Guide, I'm glad they had a fun weekend watching Mamma Mia together which was literally the only time we got to actually see Marwa happy onscreen, but they have never demonstrated much interest in science that I can recall and I want Marwa to have an astronomy buddy), and I think Elena would be fascinated by her and her perspectives on astronomy from centuries ago, and they could learn about modern astronomical advances together. If I find the time and energy I might even write fic about it, but for now, here is a moodboard so that we can all bask in the vibes of my beautiful crossover vision together.

Image sources: x x x / x (the first frame of x gif + a screenshot from x) x / x + x x x

[the-busy-ghost]

Me normally: Let people love what they love

Me, after a Test Match Special commentator expresses their belief that the new All Creatures Great and Small is somehow "better" than the 1978 version: This is pure insanity and TMS can no longer be trusted on anything, how can they even be trusted to know about cricket, do they have no TASTE

[reticent-fate]

part 8/26ish

it is sacrilege of the utmost kind to not eat your pizza crusts. that's free bread you're throwing out!!

(i could swear there was a statistic about how much pizza crust is thrown out in the united states annually or something, but alas, i cannot find it)

from the beginning

[eoinmcgonigal]

I'm so sorry I can't take the Dudley-breaks-the-news-of-Eve's-supposed-death scene seriously AT ALL. It's hilarious! It's the reason why I'm a Dudley/Eve conspiracy nut, for fun, but let me explain the reasons this scene leaves me with no sanity.

First, it's important to know that the Qattara Depression, where Dudley says Eve's plane went down, is WEST of Alexandria (off to the left, on a map). Cairo is to the east/right of Alexandria. There is no way a plane headed from Alexandria to Cairo would go west.

So, from west (left) to east (right) we have: the Qattara Depression - Alexandria - the sandstorm Dudley says happened - Cairo.

Now, this is in a show that's playing fancy-dress-up-costume with history, and moved Kabrit from where it actually is (east of the Nile, by the Suez Canal) to a few hundred miles into the desert west of the Nile. Option one in the Eve plane story mystery is that the showrunners just didn't give a shit about where a place was, they simply slapped a name in there because they'd read/heard about it, and figured no one would know or bother to check. That would be on par for the show. (And the racist assumption that no one's going to know/care/bother to check where these places are - I very much doubt we're going to find them playing fast and loose with the location of European places.)

Anyway, leaving aside the option that makes me spit incredulous venom, I have a far more amusing second option to put forward:

Dudley was making shit up.

Which is extra fucking funny because Stirling, having been out in the desert, should very much know where the Qattara Depresison is. Dudley would know that Stirling should know. He'd be cackling internally at Stirling falling for it.

I don't know if I believe a word of what Dudley said, it makes no sense, but David not noticing the inconsistency means either anyone watching the show who knows vaugely where places in Egypt are just have to shriek in intense discomfort, or David is a complete and utter dumbass when it comes to remembering where places are.

[mila-carat]

I was watching this Chinese variety show just to see Ricky and Zhang Hao but then I saw one of the hosts was Zhang Zhenyuan and now I want to cry… 😭💔

[amtrak12]

The idea that a god-like character with (supposedly) unlimited powers should snap their fingers at the end of a TV series and remove all pain and terrible things in the world so humans no longer had any suffering is the most BAFFLING thing I have ever heard. WHY DID THE SHOW EVER EXIST IF FIXING THINGS WAS THAT EASY??????

[sage-nebula]

someone needs to take lions away from Disney.

[espytalks]

The minecreft movie looks like ass, not because it looks like ass (though, it does, visually, look like ass) but because kids movies are inherently bad movies.

I think people forget minecreft is a game marketed towards children. I don't, because all the marketing ive seen since i got back into it is very obviously childish, though in a way that is respectful, and doesn't treat it's audience like idiots, so even though it's family-friendly, it's still fun.

The movie is marketed like every other kids movie from the last.. idk.. 10? 15? years? It's loud, obnoxious, and written with a "hello, stupid child, here's your visual noise" kind of way. Its "quirky" "lol, so random" in a way that corporations that don't actually like kids think kids wanna see.

Of course, this is all based off of a trailer, and it might not be as bad as it seems, but It honestly seems like it's just going to be an average kid's movie; a movie what i really just don't wanna see, because those movies tend to be loud and trope-y and clearly made for a much younger audience, and i'd rather watch something else.

I could get used to how it looks. It's ugly, but if the movie looked good, i'd deal with that. I'm just mad, honestly, cause if this looked good visually, noone would care, because kids movies are supposed to be stupid.

[ishouldreallybeelsewhere]

Episode one of Supernatural is so flawed that, had I watched it for the first time last night (instead of for the third), I would not have have watched the second. Ever. The flaws are things I simply didn't pick up on when I was thirteen, and memory glazed over with emotional attachment. I understand why these flaws are there, what the writers tried and failed to do through clumsy dialogue and strange character decisions. There's no subtlety. Everything Sam says is direct exposition, specifically the things that he would not have to say to his brother.

I do not do reviews so that's all I'm going to say.

[madegeeky]

Hannibal (the TV series) seasons in one sentence:

Season 1: The least amount of police procedural you will ever see in a police procedural.

Season 2: Reins are off now, fuckers, let's do some goddamn character work!

Season 3: Wherein the first half is Hannibal writing fanfiction and the second half has completely new main characters.

[mercuriallycooperative]

I love season one and two of Nanoha best of all, because the main characters are still just kids. Because the future is there stretching out before them, for them to reach out a hand and grasp for themselves. Nothing has been decided yet for them, except that they are alive, and together, and on the road to happiness- even when they have some heavy stuff looming in their pasts. There is nothing they 'have' to become, in those moments between the climactic finale and the credits. There is only time- to recover from the story they have just borne upon their tiny shoulders, and to discover what comes next. Maybe they'll follow through with the plans they've shared on screen about those futures- but they're like. 9. Plans can still change- if they want. That power is theirs, in a way unfettered by such things as 'professional reputation' and 'potential court martial' and 'favors gained and owed'. And I mean okay like half the party is currently on probation for unintentional Crimes Against Existence. But- even within the things they have to do, they could still choose to do them differently than they inevitably will. Or, you know, they could probably dedicate time to finding a way to ditch, I guess. I suppose, even when there are constraints- there's time. World enough and time...